2020/2021

2021/2022

DM270

L-LIN/01 (GLOTTOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS)

DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

PSYCHOLOGY, NEUROSCIENCE AND HUMAN SCIENCES

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

1st semester (04/10/2021 - 21/12/2021)

6

36 lesson hours

English

WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST

CHESI CRISTIANO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Knowledge of General Linguistics & Developmental Psychology.

Knowledge of the main linguistic theoretical models & major approaches to Language Acquisition.
Knowledge of congenital and acquired disorders related to the Language Faculty.
Knowledge of major computational models of linguistic processing.

- Introduction to linguistic processing: a formal and computational perspective
- Typical development of the language faculty
- Congenital disorders related to the language faculty
- Language disorders related to the difficulty of accessing to the linguistic information
- Linguistic disorders related to strokes or cognitive dysfunctions
- Analysis and evaluation of the linguistic performance
- Presentation of the recent research trends
- Linguistic corpora analysis and query
- Deafness and language acquisition

Frontal lessons case studies discussion and final project (in groups)

- Belletti, A., & Guasti, M. T. (2015). The Acquisition of Italian: Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition (Vol. 57). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Guasti, M. T. (2017). Language acquisition: The growth of grammar. (II edition) MIT press.
- MacWhinney, B. (2000). The CHILDES project: Tools for analyzing talk: Volume I: Transcription format and programs, volume II: The database. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,

Final project presentation, oral exam.
(written and oral exams)

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